Europeana and Wikipedia:Our plans for outreach and collaboration
David HaskiyaProduct Developer, Europeana
Mission, Content, Community and Users
“Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage.”
The Europeana mission
“Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images,
Wikimedia project goals
“Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project based on an openly editable model.”
educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.”
“Wikisource is an online library of free content publications, collected and maintained by our community.”
Complementary content
• Wikipedia has primarily contextual articles about:
• Persons
• Subjects
• Places
• Periods and Events
• But also works
• Europeana has authoritative metadata about, and
links to content to, individual works, for example:
• Books, newspapers, letters, sheet music,
manuscripts
• Museum artefacts, photographs, visual arts
• Music, radio recordings, ethnographic recordings
• TV&film, amateur video
Complementary user groups
• The student
• The amateur scientist
• The citizen expert
• The journalist
• For both Wikipedia and Europeana these are the
type of users we welcome to our sites and content
Complementary communities
• Wikipedia has an active community of editors who
are potential GLAM e-volunteers
• The Europeana network comprises 2000 GLAMs
with their curators,librarians and archivists
• What could happen if we can get these
communities to share content and work together?
Europeana is advocating Open
• Europeana metadata will be explicitly CC0 from
July 2012
• The Europeana Licensing Framework encourages
all our data providers to use the Public Domain
Mark for out of copyright content
• And to use Creative Commons licenses for in-copyright • And to use Creative Commons licenses for in-copyright
content
• Europeana currently has about 4 million records
linking to works with an Open License or bearing
the PD-mark
• Working together with the Wikipedia community is
part of a strategy of leading by example
Collaboration projects
• Build tools making it as simple as possible for
GLAMs to upload content to Wikimedia Commons
• And to download it for re-integration after improvements by
the Wiki community• And get the Wikimedia Projects usage statistics they need
• Match our communities and content to create, • Match our communities and content to create,
improve and translate Wikipedia articles and create
content.
• Match our communities to arrange a pan-European
Wikipedia Loves Public Art campaign
• Sponsor Wikipedia Loves Monuments 2012
• As we did in 2011
What we can do together I:Share content
The GLAMwiki toolset project
• A partnership between Europeana and three
Wikimedia Chapters (UK, NL, France)
• Together we’ll build a scalable curator-friendly
system for mapping metadata and mass-uploading
content from GLAMs to Wikimedia Commons
•• And the reverse, to download and re-integrate improved
content into the orginal GLAM-repository
• And provide clear requirements to the Wikimedia
Foundation Data Analytics team to build usage
statistics solutions that are fit for GLAM-purpose
“The GLAM wizard”
Previewer Wikimedia
Wikimedia
Projects
Logs
“Wikimedia Analytics”
Wikipedian
GLAM Curator
Analyst
Authorisation
The Wikimania napkin sketch
APIs
Import/Exportdata
Mapping
Transformation
Plug-ins
Mapping registry
Previewer Wikimedia
Commons
GLAM repositories
Authorisation
= software deliverable
Europeana plug-inMedia transformation?Public Domain Calculation?DPLA plug-in?…??? = requirements deliverable
The GLAMwiki toolset project
• The project will run for 12-24 months starting in
June 2012
• The software will, if all goes well, be integrated into
the Wikimedia Commons infrastructure and
maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation
• The project will reach out to GLAMs on the
Wikimedia Commons “waiting list” to become pilots
in the project
• Europeana will work together with its own network
partners to facilitate as many batch upload projects
we can
What we can do together II:GLAM-wiki outreach and activities
Europeana Awareness
• A project running 2012-2014 with a focus on
outreach
• Wikimedia Sweden is a partner in the project
• With funds to have two persons working with the project
• John Andersson (User: Jopparn) and Lennart Gudbrandson (User: Hannibal)Gudbrandson (User: Hannibal)
• Their focus will be on arranging Editathons
• For example based on the open WWI-content
crowdsourced by Europeana
• Or other openly licensed Europeana partner content
• But also a pan-European Wiki Loves Public Art
contest
David HaskiyaProduct Developer, Europeana
Europeana and Wikipedia:Our plans for outreach and collaboration
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